Andrew Meyer
Professor
History
Location: 1127a Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2811
Fax: 718.951.4504
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Andrew Meyer has a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilization from Harvard University. He spent four years living, studying, and teaching in mainland China and Taiwan and one year in Japan. He is the co-author of The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China and the author of The Dao of the Military: Liu An's Art of War.
Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University - 1999 (East Asian Languages and Civilization)
BA, Brown University - 1989 (East Asian Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Andrew Meyer's research focuses on the intellectual history of ancient and medieval China.
Books and Publications
"Reading 'Sunzi' As a Master. Asia Major Third Series 30.1 (2017): 1-24. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"What Made Mo Di a Master? Exploring the Construction of a Category in Warring States Sources." T?oung Pao 101-4-5 (2015) 271-297. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"'Only the Human Way May be Followed': Reading the Guodian Manuscripts Against the Mozi." Early China 37 2014, pp 471-517 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"The Altars of the Soil and Grain Are Closer Than Kin: The Qi Model of Intellectual Participation and the Jixia Patronage Community." Early China 33-34 (2010-11): 37-99. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
The Dao of the Military: Liu An's Art of War. New York: Columbia. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2012
Major, John S., Sarah Queen, Andrew Meyer and Harold D. Roth, co-editors and co-translators. The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Han China. New York: Columbia. Participated in the editing of the entire 952-page volume; co-authored the general introduction (1-40); co-translated Chapter 2 (77-108); sole translator of Chapters 11 (391-428), 15 (573-616) and 18 (713-56); sole author of Appendix A: Chinese Terms Explained (869-920). (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2010
"Confucianism." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sex Through History: Volume 3. Eds. Victoria Mondelli and Cherrie A. Gottsleben. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 57-61. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Daoism." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sex Through History: Volume 3. Eds. Victoria Mondelli and Cherrie A. Gottsleben. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 65-67. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Footbinding." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sex Through History: Volume 3. Eds. Victoria Mondelli and Cherrie A. Gottsleben. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 92-94. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
Meyer, Andrew and Andrew R. Wilson. "Inventing the General: A Re-appraisal of the Sunzi Bingfa." War, Virtual War and Society: The Challenge to Communities. Eds. Andrew R. Wilson and Mark L. Perry. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 151-68. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2008
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"The Faces of Cao Mo: Fact and Meaning in Early Chinese Historiography." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Early China, Chicago, March 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Feng Xuan Buys Rightness, Gongyi Xiu Expels His Wife: Economic Exemplars in the Warring States and Early Han." paper presented at EACS Braga, Portugal, July 24 2014. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Modeling the Master in the Mozi." paper presented at 'Reading the ?Masters?: Contexts, Textual Structures, and Hermeneutic Strategies', Brno, Czech Republic, September 2014. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Friends From Afar: Comparing Jewish & Chinese Religious Experience." Congregation B'nai Israel. Rumson, N.J., Dec. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"The Faces of Cao Mo: Fact and Meaning in Early Chinese Historiography." Brown University. Providence, R.I., Dec. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"The Faces of Cao Mo: Fact and Meaning in Early Chinese Historiography." Grinnell College. Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"The Frontier Between Chen and Cai: Anecdote, Logic and Argumentation in Early China." Anecdotes Workshop. Leiden University. Leiden, the Netherlands, May 31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"The Politics of the Sunzi Bingfa." War of Ideas, Ideas of War: The Role of Military Thought in Early China Workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabreu. Barcelona, Spain, June 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Ci Fei and the River God: Anecdote and Philosophical Argumentation in Early China." Annual Meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies. University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Oct. 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"The Moral Psychology of the Sage General in Huainanzi 15, An Overview of the Military." Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Toronto, March 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"'The Baseness of Knights Truly Runs Deep士之賤也, 亦甚矣' The Crisis and Negotiation of Aristocratic Status in the Warring States." Columbia University Early China Seminar. Oct. 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Postcards From the Future: Reading the Wu-Yue Saga Outside of a 'Sinicization' Paradigm." Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Honolulu, March 31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Shi Identity in the Warring States." Ideas, Networks, Places: Rethinking Chinese History of the Middle Period, A Conference in Honor of Professor Peter K. Bol. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"The Root of Order: The Position of the Huainanzi in Former Han Debates Over Imperial Sovereignty." American Academy of Religion National Meeting. Montreal, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"The Weretiger, or He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother: The Strange Case of Gongniu Ai." Ａssocation for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Paradox and Anecdote in Huainanzi 18." American Oriental Society Annual Meeting. March 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Root-Branches Structuralism in the Huainanzi." Liu An's Vision of Empire: New Perspectives on the Huainanzi. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Professional Leadership
Monographs editor, Society for the Study of Early China. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Organizer, Second Annual Society for the Study of Early China Meeting, March 27. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Organizer, First Annual Society for the Study of Early China Meeting, March 21. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
